Glitch won’t hold up the bills

With the city still figuring out exactly what to do about the bigger-than-advertised sample drainage bills that went out last month, don’t expect the real bills to be delayed. They’ll still hit your mailbox next month.

It doesn’t say we can wait until we’re ready to do it. It just says it starts in July. We had redistricting. We’ve had budget. We’ve had everything else all coming due here at the end of June and it just physically has not been possible for us to get everything nailed down.

One thing that won’t change is the fee rate, Parker said — 3.2 cents per square foot of impervious surface for properties served by curbs and gutters and 2.6 cents for properties served by ditches.

“If we hadn’t exempted the schools and churches, they (rates) could have come down,” Parker said. “All I had said was I don’t want those multipliers to go up. They can only come down. That’s held up. We’re still using 3.2 and 2.6.”

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Another reason I did NOT vote for this poorly written proposition. To those of you who voted for this piece of crap legislation, I spit in your face. To those who voted against it, I applaud you for standing up to these pitiful politicians.

I think I am going to start a petition drive to recall proposition 1. How does that sound? I will be standing in front of city hall and collecting signatures to get it on the next ballot. Along with the recall, I will propose that every homeowner receives a full refund with interest (as poor as the interest is) to what they were forced to pay to this scam.

The City’s definition of “impervious surfaces” is all charlatan B/S ! Crushed gravel, crushed concrets and shell driveways are just as ‘pervious’ as the surrounding green lawn areas. Most intelligent states and engineers consider these gravel areas as valid water storage areas that let the water percolate into the soil beneath them. Useage of these gravels in highway construction requires specific degrees of compaction obtained by using large rollers. A home driveway is merely barely compacted by light weight automobiles.